Kabul (BNA) 17 armed insurgents were killed in separate cleaning up
operations by security forces in different areas of the country.

According to interior ministry press office to BNA, In 24 last hours
the national police forces conducted 8 operations in the outskirts of
Kabul, Kandahar, Kunduz, Helmand, Maidan-Wardak and Ghazni provinces, in
which 17 armed insurgents were killed and two were severely injured.

It is said that in these operations, a quantity of huge heavy and light
arms and explosive materials were seized by national police forces as
well.

The source said national police forces in the last 24 hours discovered
and defused nine different types of mines from outskirts of Kunar,
Nangarhar, Helmand, Maidan-Wardak